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Originally Posted by shackin'up
All good points. Accept the last one. That is a bastardization of the mature point in life this man is now. He can be a pain in the ass for her, I know. But I really think LB worked his ass off to let her shine on those SYW-tracks. If she wants to have more influence on how her songs sound, she just has to be there. Since Mirage that hardly ever happened anymore. She gave it over to him -and maybe there ARE reasons to complain, as your post articulates fairly reasonable- so then you simply have to shut up and take the loss.
No she's just pissed that that album didn't sell and she blames him, not the poor quality of her songwriting. That's the bottomline.
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Chocolate tastes good. Tomatoes taste good. Together... not good. I think Lindsey tried to cover Stevie's tomatoes with chocolate on many of her SYW tracks. Sure, this could partially be due to Stevie's lack of participation at the outset, but it could also be a lack of communication and teamwork that doomed some of her songs. Nobody (except S and L) knows for sure how/why that happened, but I suspect nobody is blameless.
I think the album didn't sell because they streamed the entire album on the internet immediately. Upon first hearing the album in its entirety, my initial impression was that, for whatever reason, he seemed to have left off the best songs from the
Gift of Screws sessions, and contributed mostly the strange, unmelodic, long, over-indulgent songs. If anything, Stevie was the one to help salvage the album commercially with the radio hits "SYW" and "Thrown Down." Sure, she had some clunkers on there, but at least they didn't go on for over six minutes a piece!
As for Lindsey's demeanor, based on what I've seen on the Destiny Rules DVD, I think he came across very condescending. Or... I don't know. I really couldn't figure out half the time whether he was being serious or whether he was just putting on airs, or saying things that his psychiatrist would approve of. He always had a way of taking a simple yes/no or good/bad decision, and just talk a bunch of nonsense around it. And I did think it took a bit of chutzpah to tell Stevie to correct the grammar in her lyrics. No, she is no Bob Dylan (thank Buddah!), but that doesn't mean she deserves to be disrespected like that. Especially on camera. I loved it when Stevie handed his ass to him for saying that.